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rotation

/roh-tey-shuhn/US // roʊˈteɪ ʃən //UK // (rəʊˈteɪʃən) //

旋转,轮换,旋转运动,轮转

Related Words

orbit轨道,轨迹,轨道上,轨道上的cycle循环,周期,循环播放,循环往复gyration回旋,回转,回旋运动,转动circle循环,圈子,圆圈,圆revolution革命,变革,旋转,革命的circumvolution绕行,绕转,周转,绕射torque扭矩,转矩,扭力,转距vortex漩涡,涡流,涡旋,旋涡turn变成,转弯,变成了,转变eddy漩涡,涡流,涡旋,涡阳succession继承,继承人,继承权,继承性spin自旋转,自旋转的circumrotation圆周率,圆周运动,环行,圆周会议

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of rotating; a turning around as on an axis.
    • : Astronomy. the movement or path of the earth or a heavenly body turning on its axis.one complete turn of such a body.
    • : regularly recurring succession, as of officials.
    • : Agriculture. crop rotation.
    • : Mathematics. an operation that rotates a geometric figure about a fixed point.curl.
    • : Pool. a game in which the balls are played in order by number.
    • : Baseball. pitching rotation.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounturn
Synonyms
orbit轨道,轨迹,轨道上,轨道上的circle循环,圈子,圆圈,圆circumvolution绕行,绕转,周转,绕射gyration回旋,回转,回旋运动,转动revolution革命,变革,旋转,革命的circumrotation圆周率,圆周运动,环行,圆周会议
nounturn in circle
Synonyms
cycle循环,周期,循环播放,循环往复eddy漩涡,涡流,涡旋,涡阳revolution革命,变革,旋转,革命的spin自旋转,自旋转的succession继承,继承人,继承权,继承性torque扭矩,转矩,扭力,转距turn变成,转弯,变成了,转变turning转向,转弯,转变,转动vortex漩涡,涡流,涡旋,旋涡

Examples

  • The design offers independent screen rotation and positioning, and each can tilt back up to 70 degrees or forward by 5 degrees.

  • Huddles typically last a few hours, during which the penguins may cycle through multiple rotations from the huddle’s cold exterior to its warm interior.

  • They give the Nationals what projects to be one of the top rotations in the NL.

  • ROMY could also detect a change in Earth’s spin rate so small that it would add up to only a four-second difference in the length of a day, over a single rotation.

  • That offseason, the Dodgers signed Zack Greinke to join Kershaw, pairing Cy Young winners at the top of the rotation.

  • Following one week of “R&R,” the team will spend one more six-week rotation in the ETU before entering a three-week isolation.

  • "Palmer always keeps his word," beamed Weaver, putting the right hander back in the rotation.

  • Others who will join the rotation include Alan Alda, Candice Bergen, Stacy Keach, and Carol Burnett.

  • I heard no recent jazz releases, or any of the tracks currently in heavy rotation on the few remaining jazz radio stations.

  • Of course, that relates to the other rotation of the spin herethat she was difficult and demanding.

  • The special application of these facts must be reserved till we come to treat of the rotation of crops.

  • The remarkable difference in the proportion of these elements has been supposed to afford an explanation of rotation.

  • Such an atom would by the rotation of the sphere accomplish no motion except, indeed, that it might turn round on its own centre.

  • This evidence does not require us to abandon the supposition that the tides tend to diminish the earth's rate of rotation.

  • In mammals the head rotates more easily, but valuable time is lost in the rotation of the whole body.

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